The Hostage - Methuen Modern Plays

An essential text in the development of modern British dramaFirst staged by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin lodging house in exchange for an IRA man who is to be hanged in Belfast. Civic Guards accidentally shoot him in a raid on the house. It is a witty and often profound comment on Anglo-Irish relationships and on the Irish themselves. This is Behan's best-known and most popular play and a classic of the modern stage.A magnificent entertainment which "crowds in tragedy and comedy, bitterness and love, caricature and portrayal, ribaldry and eloquence, patriotism and cynicism…" (Harold Hobson, The Times)

ISBN:	9780413311900
Publisher:	A&C Black
Imprint:	Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Published date:	01 Dec 1959
DEWEY:	822.914
DEWEY edition:	21
Number of pages:	109
Weight:	154g
Height:	203mm
Width:	163mm
Spine width:	7mm

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